Darryl K. Taft

REDMOND, Wash.—Sun Microsystems is planning to increase support for dynamic languages and is looking at various ways to better allow dynamically typed languages to run on the Java Virtual Machine. Gilad Bracha, a computational theologist at Sun delivered a presentation called “Dynamically Typed Languages on the Java Platform” at the Lang.NET 2006 Symposium here on […]

Microsoft is charting its future product course beyond Orcas in 2007. Microsofts next major release of its Visual Studio application development tool set is known by the code name Orcas, but Microsoft also is hard at work on a version of the tool set that will revise Visual Studio Team System, or VSTS, the companys […]

Hewlett-Packards $4.5 billion deal to acquire Mercury Interactive is the right fit for service-oriented architecture, analysts said. HP, based in Palo Alto, Calif., announced the deal on July 25. HP officials said the move will allow HP to combine its OpenView systems, network and service management software with Mercurys capabilities in application management, application delivery, […]

REDMOND, Wash.—As more users are looking to use the Ruby language on .Net, developers are responding with solutions to enable it. Using the Ruby language on the Microsoft CLR (Common Language Runtime) is doable if you maintain certain guidance, said John Gough, a professor at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) in Brisbane, Australia. Ruby is […]

Microsoft has shipped the release candidate for IronPython 1.0 on its CodePlex community source site. In a July 25 blog post, S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsofts developer division, praised the team for getting to a release candidate for a dynamic language that runs on the Microsoft CLI (Common Language Infrastructure). Microsoft designed […]

Microsoft is leaving Java in the dust, but the company still has room to grow in the developer arena, a key executive said. Speaking at the Microsoft FAM (Financial Analyst Meeting) on July 27 in Redmond, Wash., Bob Muglia, Microsofts senior vice president of Server and Tools business, said Microsofts .Net platform has outpaced Java, […]

With interest in service-oriented architectures continuing to grow, several leading technology vendors that have been working together to create the SCA (Service Component Architecture) and SDO (Service Data Objects) specifications have announced key achievements, including a significant increase in industry involvement and advancements in the development of SOA-related specifications and technologies. The group, OSOA (Open […]

Hewlett-Packards $4.5 billion deal to acquire Mercury Interactive is the right fit for service-oriented architecture, analysts said. HP, based in Palo Alto, Calif., announced the deal on July 25. HP officials said the move combines HPs OpenView systems, network and IT service management software with Mercurys capabilities in application management, application delivery, IT governance and […]

JetBrains, which has maintained a cultlike following as the Java integrated development environment for discerning developers, is making a move into the team development space with a new, open team management system for developers. In addition to the new team management system, known as JetBrains TeamCity, JetBrains is introducing a new version of its core […]

Borland is close to naming a buyer for its development tools unit and will complete the deal by the end of September, said company chief executive Tod Nielsen. In an interview with eWEEK, Nielsen said Cupertino, Calif.-based Borland should be able to name a buyer for the companys IDE (integrated development environment) in the next […]

Whats all the fuss about Microsofts 12 new principles for Windows? Whats the big deal? Times change, people change, companies change. Microsoft has changed and is continuing to evolve. Well, not necessarily overnight, but this move is clearly an indication that the company is changing … if not its overall policies and practices, at least […]

WASHINGTON—Microsoft has announced 12 principles by which the company will guide its development of the Windows desktop platform, starting with Windows Vista and beyond. At a New America Foundation Policy Luncheon at the National Press Club here, Brad Smith, Microsofts senior vice president and general counsel, outlined the principles and discussed lessons Microsoft has learned […]